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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond cover image

Jon Batiste

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Is There a Curtis Mayfield on This Album?

There's a lot of curtis mayfield on this record. I think that the combination of singing in the falsetto register and singing socially conscious music is something that connects to curtis, because he's really one of the most prominent proponents of that approach. Annd, for transparency, i wasn't trying to do that. I was more, again, trying to explore my voice and figure out what the best way to deliver the messages,. honestly of each song would be im. That's a really cool thing, that it resognates with you, in the space that curtis resignates with you.

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